Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Bate
FGS
Bate in Valletta, Malta, 1934
Born8 November 1878[2]
Carmarthen, Wales
Died13 January 1951(1951-01-13) (aged 72)[2]
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England
EducationAt home and Natural History Museum, London
Occupations
Known forDiscovery and identification of animal fossils
AwardsWollaston Fund[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsNatural History Museum, London

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.[3]

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